MOSCOW, 11 Jan, Sergey Pogrebnyak. Two-time Olympic champion in biathlon Anatoly Alyabyev died at the age of 70, said the head of the media service of the Russian Biathlon Union Konstantin Boytsov.
& # 34; This morning everything happened. It's not about the coronavirus, he caught a cold. Everything was not very good with his lungs, the inflammation is not the first time already. He all loved to heal himself from this business. Most recently, he was awarded the Order of Friendship on his 70th anniversary, «Boytsov said.
Alyabyev won two gold medals at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, USA in relay and individual race. Also at the 1980 Games, he took bronze in the sprint. Alyabyev is a two-time bronze medalist at the World Championships.